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Flipism, sometimes spelled "flippism", is a pseudophilosophy under which decisions are made by flipping a coin. It originally appeared in the Donald Duck Disney comic "Flip Decision" by Carl Barks, published in 1953. Barks called a practitioner of "flipism" a "flippist". An actual coin is not necessary: dice or another random generator may be used for decision making. Flipism can be seen as a normative decision theory, although it does not fulfill the criteria of rationality.